Any one know anything about this paint shop near TPA?

[Mooneymite]

 

On Barnstormers.com:

PAINT JOB • DON'T MISS OUT • From JD& MEIERS custom paint jobs. Service summary: full strip with organic stripper, alodine, prime, and paint. Basic matterhorn white from jet glow comes with the starting price for any plane also two stripes any color. The starting pricing is : Apache/ Seneca (twin engine sized aircraft)- $11,500.00 Cessna 172- $9,750.00 Cessna 150- $7,500.00 Mooney's- $8,750.00 Cherokees& Comanches- $8,500.00 These are all starting price! Free estimates call 941-524-3102 • Contact Jose Alfaro - JD& MEIRES AIRCRAFT CUSTOM PAINT , Owner - located Wimauma, FL United States • Telephone: 9415243102 • 9415243102 • BUSINESS CARD •  Posted November 2, 2020

[201Steve]

I have been told that the Jet Glow paint is about $7,500 per plane. Cost. I know a guy who took a discount paint job at American Aircraft Painting in Selma AL and it was a complete disaster. 
 

PP thoughts only, not a painter. 

[FloridaMan]

I would go to hawk and get Imron. My M20F was painted in Imron in 1995 and looks like it could have been painted last month, sans the standard abrasions and touching up, but the paint still reflects. 

[Johnny U]

Seems awfully cheap... Might be too good to be true.

[Paul Brunner]

Yes, it is too good to be true.  Check out this terrible job these guys did on an RV- 8:

https://youtu.be/myOf4xT3254

[Niko182]

If you're going to do the paint, pay to get quality work, and never do it again. 

I highly doubt the painter above balanced the surfaces. Not only does your aircraft look ugly. It also becomes unsafe.

[Hank]

Wow, the orange peel on the RV looks about like the tailgate of a newish Silverado I was behind going home last night . . . . Wouldn't want either of them!

[EricJ]

3 hours ago, Paul Brunner said:

Yes, it is too good to be true.  Check out this terrible job these guys did on an RV- 8:

https://youtu.be/myOf4xT3254

Holy smokes that's insane.   I'm glad that guy made that vid.

[Igor_U]

Terrible pain job! I find interesting that he says that paint job resulted in slowing the plane 10 mph! 

[carusoam]

Welcome aboard Paul...

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[jetdriven]

Yup and the cheapest paint job that you have to do three times it’s going to be the most expensive. That is a horrible paint job.

[Ross Statham]

On 11/30/2020 at 11:11 PM, FloridaMan said:

I would go to hawk and get Imron. My M20F was painted in Imron in 1995 and looks like it could have been painted last month, sans the standard abrasions and touching up, but the paint still reflects. 

I absolutely and totally agree. I was hesitant to use Hawk because they were a little more expensive than the other people around, but Joe did a magnificent job on my plane as you can see if you look at my profile, my M20J as in the background. Hawk in Zephyrhills did that paint job and I can only but sing their praises.

Not only did he do a great job and helping me select the right color scheme, but he replaced all of my hardware, and had the airplane professionally rerigged when it was done. Start to finish his is a first class operation. Joe is a straight shooter and ethical.  That still counts for something in this day and age.

[V1VRV2]

That was by far the worst aircraft paint job I have ever seen by a long shot! Wow! 

[ArtVandelay]

That was by far the worst aircraft paint job I have ever seen by a long shot! Wow! 

My old paint job was worst, done by paint shop in Bartow by PO.

They didn’t even remove the flight controls or bother to extend the flaps so when I did you saw the old paint which they didn’t bother to strip. They also didn’t mask very well, lots of overspray, they even sprayed the antennas.

I had all the other problems the guy had in the video.

BTW, even my horrific paint job can look good in pictures.